Shetland Words:Q
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- quam = (n) valley, dip in the ground
- queer fellow = develish person, person held in strange regard, (I ken no whit da queer fellow will tink)
- quaig = (n) young cow
- quaikirs = the cause and/or means of a person losing enthusiasm/energy for a particular project (Mostly used when talking after the fact)
- quartering = the custom of boarding out paupers with the inhabitants, passing on from one house to another after a fortnight's stay.
- quarters = (n) households assigned to lodge and feed the poor
- quarter-wife = (n) a female pauper moving from one house to another at stated intervals
- quoat = (n) coat (Low 1774)
- quoy = (n) common land, used in place names such as Ocraquoy, and Quoys
- quoyck = (n) heifer
- quite = (v) stop
